Although there were no state titles this year, the Yuma High School track and field athletes did well again last week at the Class 2A Athletics Championships at Lakewood’s Jefferson County Stadium.
The two-time 2A champion men’s team finished fifth in the team standings with 40.5 points. Payton won the men’s team title with 65 points, while Heritage Christian scored 54, Holyoke 47 and Pratt Canyon 41.5.
The Yuma women’s team finished in the top 20 and placed 19th in the team standings with 12.5 points.
The former Indians finished Thursday in the pole vault with Nash Richardson clearing 13-foot-4 for third, Bridger Lynch finishing fifth with a 13-1 record and Giovani Perez finishing ninth with a 12-7 record. , jumped onto the board. Forrest Rutledge finished in 9th place at Discus with a 128-8 record, earning points.
More points on Friday.
Alex Lozano, Cristian Duarte, Javier Durán and Daman Hernández finished second in the 4×200 relay with a time of 1:31.16.
The women’s 4×200 team of Carolina Ross, Jaileen Roya, Jade Langwitz and Lee Richardson finished fifth in 1:50.78. Cadiz Robinson, Roya, Lindsey Mekelberg and Ross finished ninth in the 800m sprint medley in 2:00.43. In the pole vault, Chloe Smith finished seventh with an 8-7 record.
On Saturday, Nash Richardson was fifth in the 110m hurdles in 16.31 seconds, while Lynch was eighth in 16.66 seconds.
Hernandez finished eighth in the 400 meters in 51.54 seconds.
L. Richardson finished eighth in the 400m with a time of 1:00.93.
Durand moved up to sixth in the 200m in 22.87 seconds.
L. Richardson did it again, finishing eighth in the 200’s in 27.23 seconds.
Duarte finished fourth in the long jump, going 20-4.75.
Mekelburg competed in the 100 hurdles and triple jump. Lungwitz competed in the triple jump. The 4×100 and 4×400 relay teams did not qualify for the finals. Roya competed in the 200 meters and Abril Montes de Oca in the pole vault.
In the men’s, Lozano in the 200m, Durand in the 400m, Richardson in the 300 hurdle, Edwin Muñoz and Duarte in the high jump, Lozano in the long jump, Richardson in the triple jump, Hermosillo in the discus, and him and Rutledge in the shot put. The 4×100 relay team and the 4×800 relay team were not placed.
